Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300) Online Training

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UPDATED: September 12, 2022

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This intermediate Azure Database Administrator Associate training prepares database administrators to take the DP-300 exam, which is the one exam required to earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate certification. While some of the components of maintaining databases and connections in the cloud might be familiar—such as SQL fundamentals, implementing data platform resources, and T-SQL—knowing how to combine them all sets a database administrator apart.

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What you'll learn

Planning and implementing data platform resources
Recommending appropriate database offerings based on requirements
Configuring database authentication with platform and database tools
Implementing performance-related maintenance tasks
Automating Azure tasks
Implementing high availability and disaster recovery environments

FAQs

Is the Azure Database Administrator Associate certification worth it?

The DP-300 Microsoft's Azure Database Administrator Associate certification is a solid credential for database administrators and data analysts, and it's worth it if your company relies on Azure for managing data workloads. The Azure Database Administrator Associate emphasizes the whole picture of building database solutions, so earning it proves that you're ready to manage, secure, monitor, and optimize databases, not just one thing.

Is the Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300) test hard?

Yes, DP-300 is a challenging exam and passing it requires proving your familiarity with a wide range of skills. Most people agree that what makes the Azure Database Administrator Associate exam challenging is its breadth and width. There's very little specific knowledge that you can cram or study for, instead to pass DP-300, you have to be able to prove you can recommend the right solution for a complex problem.

Who should take this DP-300 database administration course?

Although the information on this DP-300 course could be useful for anyone who administers databases, the best audience for it and the Azure Database Administrator Associate cert are DBAs who work extensively with Azure databases. The DP-300 covers managing data storage, security and performance utilization – all on Azure. Those are concepts that certainly apply to most storage systems, but this course emphasizes Azure, its unique interface and managing Azure databases.

What's the passing score for DP-300 and is it multiple choice?

Yes, the DP-300 is a multiple-choice exam. Its questions are designed to test knowledge and skills related to database administration. The Azure Database Administrator Associate cert is what Microsoft calls a technical cert, and all technical exam scores receive a score between 1 to 1,000. A passing score is 700. But questions are weighted differently, so a score of 700 doesn't necessarily mean answering 70% of the questions correctly.

How do you pass the DP-300?

The trick to passing the DP-300 is to know ahead of time what's on the exam, then practice real skills related to database administration. This course is designed with the DP-300 in mind, and includes practice opportunities for all 5 sections of the exam. In roughly equal parts, the DP-300 covers implementing data platform resources, implementing a secure environment, optimizing database resources, configuring task automation, and planning for disaster recovery.

Who is this for?

This Azure Database Administrator Associate training is considered associate-level Microsoft training, which means it was designed for new IT professionals with at least a year of experience with relational databases on Azure and experienced database administrators looking to validate their Microsoft skills.

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Download the free (DP-300) study plan to complete this course in about 25 hours.

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